When are the jungle items getting some love?

Relentless Rogue·2/14/2016, 8:10:52 PM·1 votes·402 views

While the AP jungle item has been reworked twice now, the others have been largely untouched and it's getting really annoying. Warrior is literally just a ball of stats that doesn't feel good to buy, while Cinderhulk seems like the generic default jungle buy. On top of that, ever 3 games I have to play against a Sated Devouer Master Yi that 100-0's people with a full tank build and Sated because the item is just that unbalanced (If you don't believe me, look at the numbers).

Please just tell me that there's SOMETHING in the works as far as jungle items.

3 Comments

Allahu Barackbar2/14/2016, 8:14:14 PM1 votes

Unfortunately, there are no plans for a Jungle-based overhaul for at least until the next Pre-Season, since the Mage Update is coming up, and will likely be followed up by a Fighter/Assassin Update (given the current trend). I agree that some aspects of the current jungle feel underwhelming, but the Jungle role still remains as the most influential role in the current game state. A good jungler can determine the pace of the game before 10 minutes have gone by.

Nekusen2/14/2016, 9:18:06 PM1 votes

Jungle items were the most heavily changed ones.

The AP item was changed because it was the one with the most issues, as AD champs could use warrior, tanks cinderhulk but not all AP champs could cash on then previous versions.

I usually go for devourer, but i would really like it changed, its a bit stressful having to sate it, i dont see why on-hit junglers are forced to have a soulstealer-bladeoftheocult mechanic over the rest of jungle items. So i really dislike the stacks mechanic, id like it more if they changed to something like "when you hit a target you gain "sated for 10 seconds, 40 seconds cooldown" and the damaga scaling to depend on level or something making it more like the rest of jungle items.

Best KhaZix Void2/14/2016, 9:25:15 PM1 votes

while i agree warrior should be more than "the ad item", saying it feels bad to buy is really not true. it has huge gold value for the stats it gives, picking it up from caufields-jungle item gives you a bf sword's worth of AD from 25. it's a huge spike for every AD jungler.